{"id":60920,"date":"2024-01-03T18:20:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T09:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/03\/japan-plane-crash-why-the-jet-didnt-explode-on-impact-explainer"},"modified":"2024-01-03T18:20:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T09:20:28","slug":"japan-plane-crash-why-the-jet-didnt-explode-on-impact-explainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60920","title":{"rendered":"Japan plane crash: why the jet didn\u2019t explode on impact \u2013 explainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts have been examining how all passenger and crew on board the Japan Airlines flight to Haneda managed to escape alive<\/p>\n<p>After all 379 passengers and crew on a Japan Airlines jet that crashed into another plane at a Tokyo airport escaped the burning aircraft, experts have examined how they managed to get out mostly unharmed, and said that low fuel levels likely prevented an explosion.<\/p>\n<p>At about 5:45pm on Tuesday evening, JAL flight 516 \u2013 an Airbus A350-900 that departed the northern city of Sapporo about an hour and a half earlier \u2013 collided with a coast guard plane when landing at Haneda airport, killing five of the six onboard the smaller Dash 8 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/03\/japan-plane-crash-why-the-jet-didnt-explode-on-impact-explainer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts have been examining how all passenger and crew on board the Japan Airlines flight to Haneda managed to escape aliveAfter all 379 passengers and crew on a Japan Airlines jet that crashed into another plane at a Tokyo airport escaped the burning &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1472,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60921,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60920\/revisions\/60921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}